About StellingBot
StellingBot is how Stelling finds property adverts on other Guyanese websites, so people can search them in one place and then go to the original advert. If you've seen it in your server logs, this page explains what it does and how to stop it.
What it does
- It obeys robots.txt, and stops for the day if your site returns an error asking it to back off.
- It goes slowly: one request at a time, several seconds apart, and only for pages that look new or changed.
- It only reads public pages. It never logs in.
- It shows facts only: type, price, rooms, size and area. Descriptions and photos stay on your site unless you've agreed otherwise, and we don't collect contact details from dedicated fields.
- Every listing links to your advert, names your site, and is kept out of search engines.
Staff keep a private copy of what the advert said, so they can check our reading of it before anything goes live. The public never sees that copy.
How to stop it
Add this to your robots.txt, and it won't fetch your pages again:
User-agent: StellingBot Disallow: /
To have your listings taken down as well, or to send us your adverts properly, please contact us. We'll stop collecting from your site and remove what we've shown.